Part I. Fundamentals and Properties 1. Introduction to Latent Heat Storage Technologies for Energy-efficient Buildings and Zero-carbon Communities 2. Fundamentals of PCMs and Thermo-physical Properties in Energy-efficient Buildings and Zero-carbon Communities 3. Classification, Manufacture, and Selection of PCMs for Energy-efficient Buildings 4. Micro- and Macro-encapsulation Techniques for Advanced PCM Systems 5. Enhancing Heat Transfer in PCM Systems for Energy-efficient Buildings 6. Nanoscale Thermal Transport Mechanisms in PCM Systems: Advances and Applications Part II.
PCM Integration 7. PCM Integration in Building Envelopes: Mathematical Models and Performance Analysis 8. PCM Integration in Radiative Cooling/Heating Systems for Energy Efficiency 9. PCM Integration in Ground Source Heat Pumps for District Heating/Cooling: Models and Analysis 10. PCM Integration in Building Integrated Solar Photovoltaics (PV): Performance Assessment and Optimization 11. PCM Integration in Centralized Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Net-zero Communities Part III. Applications 12. Thermal Management of PCMs in Building Envelopes and Solar PV Systems 13.
Advanced Control Strategies for Thermal Energy Management with PCMs in Energy-efficient Buildings 14. Model Predictive Control of Latent Heat Storage for Renewable Self-Consumption and Grid Response 15. Metaheuristic Optimization for Design and Operation of PCM Systems in Energy-efficient Buildings 16. Machine Learning-empowered Intelligence for Stochastic Uncertainty-based Optimization in PCM Systems 17. Climate-adaptive PCM Integrated Systems: Techno-economic-environmental Performance Analysis 18. PCM-based Waste Heat Recovery for Decarbonization in Net-zero Communities Part IV. Challenges and Future Directions 19. Prospects and Challenges in Advancing Latent Heat Storage for Energy-efficient Buildings 20.
Future Directions and Emerging Research Areas in Latent Heat Storage for Zero-carbon Communities.